Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Good news for .Net developers. Yesterday, August 3rd, Microsoft has announced a new product in the Visual Studio Family – Visual Studio LightSwitch. It looks like LightSwitch is the simplest way to build business applications for the cloud & the desktop. You can start building your application either in C# or Visual Basic. Interestingly you won’t be writing any code for most of the applications as most of the plumbing work has been in-built for you. If you’ve some sophisticated needs you can always write code as the robust VS.Net is available to LightSwitch apps.

A few words about LightSwitch from Microsoft’s official website:

QUICKLY CREATE PROFESSIONAL-QUALITY BUSINESS APPLICATIONS

EASILY ACCESS EXISTING SYSTEMS AND DATA

BUILD FOR TODAY, PREPARE FOR TOMORROW

They are also planning to offer a modern looking & touch screen enabled UI and all this by selecting your options from a drop down box. Moreover, LightSwitch has been designed to target the cloud. You can host your Database (on SQL Azure) & application on the Azure cloud without any administrative work.

For a hands-on experience of the product (1st Beta of LightSwitch) you need to wait till August 23rd. I am feeling very excited as it may become a meaningful product using 5G visual language, sort of :-)

2 comments:

This could be a good offering for .NET Developers to build web applications. Rest assured, Microsoft will not disappoint developer community without code :) So, you can surely start building your application if you know C# or Visual Basic. Not sure how this differs from Visual Studio .NET Framework building blocks though ...